altitude

Example Sentences

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Yet the low altitude and slow speed puts them in greater danger for ground or antiaircraft fire.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

The name suggests altitude, and this whitewashed village of barely 2,000 in the Algarve region is only a half-hour’s drive inland from the beach town of Albufeira and its package-tour mobs but feels centuries away.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Japan's defence ministry also confirmed North Korea launched multiple ballistic missiles that reached a maximum altitude of about 80 kilometres and fell outside Japan's exclusive economic zone near the Korean Peninsula's east coast.

From Barron's • Mar. 14, 2026

It can do this at a high altitude, beyond even the Earth's atmosphere, which was seen as especially useful in South Korea, because it could be used to intercept and destroy a nuclear warhead.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

“Just to get a taste of what high altitude is about.”

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer